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Strathprints makes available scholarly Open Access content by researchers in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences, including those researching information retrieval, information behaviour, user behaviour and ubiquitous computing.

The Department of Computer & Information Sciences hosts The Mobiquitous Lab, which investigates user behaviour on mobile devices and emerging ubiquitous computing paradigms. The Strathclyde iSchool Research Group specialises in understanding how people search for information and explores interactive search tools that support their information seeking and retrieval tasks, this also includes research into information behaviour and engagement.

Abstract

Embedded wavelet codes are very sensitive to channel noise because a single bit error can lead to an irreversible loss of synchronization between the encoder and the decoder. Sherwood and Zeger protected a zero-tree based embedded wavelet code sent through a memoryless noisy channel by using cyclic redundancy detection codes (CRC) and channel correction codes. Chande and Farvardin proposed an optimal joint source-channel allocation strategy for such systems. We show how to accelerate their algorithm without quality loss. For grey scale test images of size 512 x 512, our speedup factors ranged from 1.2 to 6 for total bit rates between 0.25 and 1.0 bits per pixel. Moreover, by using turbo codes as channel codes, we obtained competitive peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) results.